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Through Different Eyes

• Terri Wilson

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What if you could completely transform your experience of life by simply changing the lens through which you view the world? That's the profound question at the heart of this transformative episode.

Through powerful personal stories and examples, I explore how our perspectives literally create our reality. You'll hear how my husband evolved from rigid "my way or the highway" thinking to embracing new possibilities, simply by adjusting his viewpoint. Once unable to consider shopping anywhere but Walmart or traveling beyond our hometown, he's now enjoying weekend adventures and considering new experiences—a transformation that seemed impossible just two years ago.

The lens metaphor extends beyond individual growth to our collective experience. Consider how a baby sees bright colors and shapes while an elderly person notices subtle details; how someone raised in Uganda experiences reality differently than a Hollywood celebrity; how our political views often consist of borrowed opinions rather than authentic personal truth. These differences explain so much of our societal division—we're literally not seeing the same world.

I share a powerful exercise in perspective-shifting: imagining how life appears through different eyes, even contemplating the view through the eyes of God, where all humanity is connected through love. Notice how your body physically responds to seeing through love versus judgment. The tension in your shoulders when witnessing rage contrasts sharply with the openness you feel when viewing others with compassion.

In these challenging times, as light reveals darkness across our world, we have a choice in how we respond. Other people serve as mirrors reflecting aspects of ourselves needing healing. By consciously choosing to look through the lens of love rather than judgment, we not only transform our personal experience but contribute to a collective shift toward greater peace and understanding. As Bryant McGill said, "Those who see the world through the lens of love are true visionaries." What will you choose to see today?

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There is only one way to see things until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes is a quote by Pablo Picasso. And mayhaps today, on today's episode of Free to Just Be, we can conversate about the lenses we wear through life. And I welcome you back to Free to Just Be, the podcast empowering humanity to courageously step out of old patterns and matrix programming and give a big old hug to a new way of being. And I hope this finds you in the greatest health today, with vibrant energy, because you have chosen to accept the full responsibility for your body, mind and soul. Here on Free To Just Be, your host that'd be me. Teresa Marie, the ambassador of Chi will try to inspire you to truly be who you came here to be authentic, free and aligned with your highest potential. So join me on this transformative journey, because we're all on it, folks, and we are trying to rewrite our narratives and live our true lives of purpose and passion. And I do welcome you on this tremendous Thursday and I want to talk to you about seeing through different lenses today. You know we see the world through the lens of all of our experiences. That is a fundamental part of being a human being. So we have to keep in mind that everybody has a different view, coming out of their peepers, you coming out of their peepers, and I'd like to spend a little time talking about the different lenses that we use. Take, for example, yourself. Okay, when we're looking through a lens of past experiences, it can be hard to see through what's right in front of you. But once you see things through a lens of possibility, you'll wonder why you didn't see it sooner.

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Let me give you some concrete examples. For example, my husband is a one on the Enneagram, so he's very detail orientated. He wants to do everything rotely, very disciplined, and for many, many years most of his life in fact he's only broke out of that cage about two years ago when I walked away for a season, and it was always well, my way is the right way and therefore my way is, it's my way or the highway, and that was one of his very narcissistic tendencies. But now, having recognized, oh, that's my archetype. My archetype wants order, wants things to be logically done, and so now let me bring that into real life. So for the last 22 months, as I was gone, he would, you know, he was forced to do his own grocery shopping, which is something that I always used to do for the 17 years that we've been as a couple. And he began in Walmart.

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And what did my archetype one husband do? Well, he plotted out every aisle in Walmart so he would create his list, so that he would walk in the door and know exactly the path that he was going to take and know exactly where to find things. Well, recently, I was in a different store picking up a delivery and I suggested to him hey, babe, why don't we try Food Lion? They have a really good meat section and their vegetables are far fresher looking than Walmart. What? Well? Well, and he sat and pondered it. Now my old husband would have said no, we're going to Walmart, that's that's where you know, that's where I've always gone, that's where we're going to go. And instead, after a few minutes pause, he said yeah, but I know exactly where everything is in Walmart and it's easier for me. But maybe I can try a different store. You know, I might find that it's better. And I told him I said, hey, it's a smaller store, there's less people to deal with, there's more room and space to make choices and often the prices are better. And he was like, huh, okay, so he's considering it. He put on a different set of lenses. I give you another real-time example, using my husband we can't travel, we can't afford to travel. Who's going to watch the pets? No, no, no, no, I can't be away from the home for 48 hours. No, I don't know what you're thinking. That was the old Roger. The new Roger, with a new set of lenses, traveled with me to Kentucky to a primitive camping trip a couple of hours from home and all the way to Tybee Island, georgia, three weekends in a row this past month.

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Talk about seeing things from a different lens, a different perspective, and if you think that you can't change simply by changing your view of life, I just proved you wrong, didn't I? So now let's move to how we interpret the world. You know we must look at the lens through which we see the world, as well as the world that we're looking at, and then we need to recognize that the lens, the set of glasses themselves, shapes how we interpret the world, because, as I just explained, for years it was through one lens. We do it this way. We do it this way. So let me give you a few examples of that.

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What if you were raised to live very frugally and that stuff? You know, maybe you were a minimalist and you know you had two sets of shoes, a summer pair and a winter pair, cold weather and warm weather, right, and that was it. That's what you were raised with, that's what you were comfortable with and you don't see any logical reason why you should have 70 pairs of shoes versus the person who was raised with the ability to buy, receive or have anything they wanted. So they have closets of clothes and closets of choices and shoes. And then we come into real life and you're at a job and you walk in with your pair of tennis shoes and maybe there's a little tiny bit of dirt on them, not anything that you're concerned with and the person you work with and this I'm telling you, this literally happened to me in the last year and they look down at your shoes, like, why are you wearing those shoes? Because that's their lenses, you know. But if you are looking through someone else's eyes, someone else's eyes, the lens that you look through will determine what you see, right, and we have to be careful there, because if you're looking through, you know, in my example I saw my shoes now through that other person that I work with's eyes of condescension and incredulousness why are you wearing those shoes again? Don't you have any other shoes? And it kind of messed my day up. Why? Because I wasn't looking through my own lens.

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So now let's imagine for a minute. Imagine that we see the world through the lenses of all of our experiences. All right, so just take a little imagination station trip with me. We're going in to a big vision store, okay, we're going in to a store that has cases and cases of different eyeglasses and we're going to experience what it's like with different people.

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Imagine, for example, a baby who sees things with just color, and things are blurry and new and exciting and stimulating and you know, everything just makes their body move and they're just you know. You know what happens with a baby that's overstimulated they begin to cry and they need to go in a quiet, dark place to just settle their body back down, because so much newness is coming through their eye gates that they can't fully cope with it. All right, and everything's bright and shiny and new, versus a senior citizen in their 80s who are now seeing things much less vibrant and what they do is, instead of seeing, just shapes and colors. They're very acutely aware of all the details and they admire the wrinkles in people and they look with joy at a baby's soft skin and imagine when there was. Do you see the difference?

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Here's another one. I imagine my friend Paul in Uganda, who starts his day in an eight by eight hut and wakes up to the sound of nature and spends his day toiling in the soil and going to hisage, as compared to a movie star who lives in a mansion, who is very disconnected from nature and has every bell and whistle imagined. Can you see the difference? What about someone who was raised with their grandparents that were married over 50 years and then their parents were married over 50 years and now they're married over 50 years, versus Teresa Marie here who's been married four times? They may see different things because of their lens perspective. What about if you were raised in a religion and you were in your church or temple or wherever you met to worship three times a week, as compared to an atheist who looks through the lens of science and logic? And if you really want to take this, if you want to resurrect inquisition in your own life, then I highly suggest you have a 10-minute little fun session with AI. You know, if you're on Google, you can use Gemini and just ask Google to show you the difference.

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What would it be like to look through the eyes of XYZ, and you'll be amazed at the things that they come up with. It really behooves us to play with this a little bit, because even entering these thoughts into our thought process could really really change everything. So, like my husband, who only saw through his past experiences and now is beginning to see possibilities because he's opening himself up to trying things, it's really imperative for us to open our eyes, especially in what's happening in the world today, with so much hate and so much division. Wouldn't it be so much better to look at the lens through which we see the world, as well as what we're looking at on the TV, because that lens is going to shape how we interpret the world. So now let's move up to what happens. If we stay stuck in the past, we can't move forward. All we can do is repeat, repeat, repeat.

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So it's very important that we see life through our own eyes and not through the lens of others, others being the propaganda, the programming, the false beliefs, all you know, facebook is not real folks. Do you understand that people either choose their best pictures or they Photoshop their pictures, and many even use AI? We live in an illusion and if we begin to think that our lives should look like the illusion, we're going to have a struggle through our whole life. So it's very important as well that we take into consideration the opinions of others, simply because we all look at the world through different lenses, right? And how can we judge? How can we judge another person on the street, for example, that we have no idea what they were going through, how they were raised, what set of lenses they have on, right? So it's very, very important to understand these concepts because, baby, it shapes everything. It shapes everything that we do, everything that we see.

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Now I want to take you through a brand new process, maybe for you and in the remembrance, of speaking about lenses and how the lens we look through will determine what we see, as shown in the examples of the baby and the senior citizen, and my husband and his past and now his present. Because that lens determines everything, and I want you to, for a minute, go with me on a little journey and look through the eyes of God, who would be able to perceive the world with complete and absolute understanding, transcending the limitations of human experience. It would involve seeing all of time past, present and future as a single unified moment, which is really true reality. We just don't realize it. And we would be able to perceive the interconnection-ness of all things, from the smallest subatomic particle to the most distant galaxy, and we would understand the intricate cause and effect relationships that govern the universe. And it would be one of total knowledge, love and impartiality, free from bias and imperfections that color human vision. That, my dear brothers and sisters in Humanityville, that was what AI told me. It would be like to look through the lens of God. Now I ask you, wouldn't it be so much fun to play with that and just ask him what would it be like to look through the eyes of a conservative? What would it be like to look through the eyes of a liberal? What would it be like to look through the eyes of somebody living in China or India? Do you see where I'm going with this?

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You know, when I was a kid growing up in Queens, new York, one of the most profound lessons it still stays with me was the art lesson about living in New York City, the melting pot of the world. And it was true. I went to school with kids of every nationality. So I never I was colorblind. I'm still colorblind, and yet there are those around me in the South. I was absolutely appalled the first time I went into a restaurant in Tennessee. I can't remember exactly where it was, but it was definitely a podunk town. No offense to podunk towns, but there are some towns that are still, you know, banjo locations, where you know there are people that literally still have incestual relationships and live in the backwoods and you walk into a cafe and there's segregation still and most folks of color don't come into towns like that. I was appalled at that because, you see, I never had a lens of color.

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Some of us who were raised by our friend group, for example, or went to college, or didn't have parents that spoke freely about politics, for example, have now on their faces a lens of political views that are simply nothing more than the views of a conglomeration of other people's opinions. And most of these folks, especially the ones that are very outspoken and very racist and very dyed in the wool it's this way, and you know and I'm this because this is what I believe are skewed because they've never actually asked themselves what do I believe. So they have this multicolored lens not talking about race, I'm just talking. They have a multi-conglomeration of all these other people's opinions and they are now wearing this set of glasses that they believe are theirs. But sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others, and this is when life becomes difficult.

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And that's where we are right now on the planet in this ascension journey. The light is flooding the planet so much that it's illuminating every corner of darkness. If you don't recognize that yet, then take off your colored lenses and start looking at the world as it is. It is a show, it is an illusion, it is a play, and you are an actor in the play. And everybody is beginning, in whatever level they're at, to recognize this that others have formulated the way we view the world, especially in America. The programming is so thick and so deep and so old, centuries old. There are rulers of the planet for centuries that wanted to conquer America, and they are doing it. That wanted to conquer America, and they are doing it. One little increment of heat under the boiling frog pot at a time. They have been very, very patient. And now where we're at is what I view, as you know. You can call it we're getting pert near a boil under, you know, in the pot of frogs, or we are getting close to the literal Armageddon. I believe Armageddon is happening right now with all the violence and all I mean people are. It's this way, no, it's that way, and it's the tug of war.

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And if people just let go of the rope and reached up and took off their lens of perspective and began to recognize, like what happened after 9-11 and what happened after the Charlie Kirk tragedy, you see good people, see the good and bring out the best in other people. And that's what happens when there's big, massive tragedies. We are reduced down to the simpleness of being human, where it's nothing but love, folks, and we are that spark of God. So if the lens we look through determines what we see, if the lens we look through determines what we see, then those who see the world through the lens of love are true visionaries, which is a quote by Bryant McGill. And if more of us began to look through the lens of God and saw everybody imagine for a minute that the person before you, online in the car in front of you, or maybe the car behind you, or the person that you sit across in the cafeteria, or the person that cuts your hair, or whoever it is. Imagine if you would just close your eyes for a minute and open your eyes and pretend you're God. Can you feel your body just softening? Can you feel your arms wanting to wrap around that person? Can you see the joy in his eye at seeing your birth? Can you feel the love welling up in his heart at your rebirth when you recognize that you are love and light, just like him? Can you feel in your body the difference of seeing everybody through the lens of love, which, of course, love is God and humanity. Have we forgotten that we are love and light sparks of our creator, God? So, in closing, please take into consideration the lens that you choose today, because the lens you choose transforms the way we look at things. I just gave you an example of what it would feel like to look through a lens of love.

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Now let's look at the opposite. And you're out in public and you watch somebody get cut off and that person that got cut off stops at a red light and jumps out of his car and goes over and pounds on the door and is flipping the bird and saying what the F is wrong with you? And the person inside the car is rolling their window up and they're scared and you can see the fear in their face. And this other person is continues to rage and says you need to get off the road and you don't deserve a license. And I want you to notice the tenseness in your body. I want you to notice how, all of a sudden, everything starts to boil within you. And maybe it's rage at the person that's raging, and maybe it's righteous indignation for the person in the car who's now scared, or maybe it's just absolute overwhelm at why is this even happening? And I think the latter is where we all are. We're overwhelmed at the coldness and the lack of humanity. So today, remember this little show about the colored lenses you look out of and picture those heart-shaped lenses that so often you see kids wear, or the lenses of red, white and blue flags, and remind yourself that every person you look at through your peepers came from the source, which is God, and God is love. And also they all have red blood. And if you can look out at the world through love, your whole day will change. I'll give you a closing example.

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You know, many of you know that I am refusing to step back into a job where I have to punch a clock. I refuse to go back fully into the matrix. Now I am on the seesaw, halfway in and halfway out. I'm not quite an entrepreneur yet where I have passive lines of income working for me, but I am working towards that and so my step, my final step away from punching a clock was when I began my door dashing, and that's been about two years now.

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And you know, this process is often slow and I think that we often get confused and think that the people that are doing well as entrepreneurs and are free to travel and you see people like that all the time and we think, well, you know, they did it, I want to do it too and we think that just overnight it's going to happen. And no, it takes hard work and I think the hardest work is the changing of perspective. I can speak personally about that because my perspective has always been one of lack and scarcity. That's where I was always going to stay and I just was going to settle, for you know the way life was and I know that that's not true and I know that I am as my higher self and I'm not fully stepped into her yet, but I'm getting there. I am helping humanity and at the same time, I'm making a wage that helps me live comfortably and in a way that I can continue to give some of those funds back, whether it's into my own mission or into missions of others. That's going to happen, but we forget where we came from and we forget how other people also toiled and worked and sacrificed and had to get through their own war between their ears in order to become entrepreneurs.

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So, as we look through right lenses today, as Sharon Jane said, when we look through the right lenses, we can have joy, even in difficult situations. So let's take that right to the point of the situation that we're in. We're in a massive explosion of light on the planet that is peeling back the darkness for all of us to see. We saw heinous things right before our eyes that were not in the movies. We saw people's reactions, and the Word of God tells us that out of our heart, our mouth speaks. So there are people that have some very dark things that they have to begin to look at, and those of us that find ourselves, quote-unquote, triggered and we all get triggered every single day and we want to, just, you know, get away from these people, and we neglect to see that we're seeing ourselves through another lens. We're viewing our own shite. The light is going to reveal everything, folks.

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So my suggestion to us is, if we begin ourselves to look deep inside, what do we believe? How are we viewing life? Where did those beliefs and thoughts come from? Do I want to be raging? Do I want to hate another person for their opinion? Is this how I want to live my life? And then it's very important, as you ask these questions, to feel your body. The matrix doesn't want you to feel your body, because your body will not lie to you. Just as we experienced in this episode, you could feel the joy and the openness and how your body relaxed when we spoke about looking through others with the lens of God. And then we could feel the tension when we spoke about the raging person who got cut off in traffic.

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Choose how you want to be. You make those choices up front before you are confronted with a mirror, because other people are our mirrors, folks, and as difficult as it is to sit in front of a mirror and speak your truth and see how your body language looks. Are you militant, are you closed? Because God, in his grace and in his mercy, is going to continue to confront you over and over and over again with the very darkness that we still have within ourselves, to give us the free will choice to decide how we want to live going forward. So remember, as Renee Swope said, the lens we look through will determine what we see. What will you see today, humanity? I hope it's peace and love and harmony, because if more of us see that, and as the collective begins to do that more and more, it will come to fruition. I wish you peace and I love you so much. Have a glorious day.